Face: Fresh from the Kiln

Silverstone clay;
Reitz's Green glazing, lightly applied.

He lacks a name as yet . . . .

With A Swimmer's Eyes

Revisiting: The Merman's Head

The Merman's Head:
sculpture mix;
copper carbonite oxide;
matte white glaze.

This must have been the third of the four or five full-sized heads I have sculpted.

The Cephlapod's Gaze II

The Cephlapod's Gaze

Into the shallows . . . .

Octopus (small): sculpture mix; denim and transparent brown glazing, with additional splashes of other colors.

The Duck's Luck

Isn't there an old English folktale or folksong with that title?
If there isn't, there should be.

Not that all luck runs downstream . . . .

The ebbs and flows, 
The floods and shoals . . . .

I now tend to consider carrying such a luck piece a worthwhile wooing of Fortuna.   This wrought clod-of-clay gives me something to turn in my hand -- a talisman, a worry-stone --for when I grasp at a bit of boost, that palpable push, from the web-footed luck of the big-billed duck.